Build a Flagstone Pathway In 5 Minutes
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ย. 2024
- My video on how to build a flagstone patio or walkway: • How To Install A Flags...
My video on how to cut flagstone: • How to Cut Flagstone (...
In this video I share a time-lapse of me building a walkway out of flagstone from my front yard to my backyard. You'll get to see the entire process including digging down, tamping the dirt, laying down the gravel base, leveling the layer of decomposed granite, placing the flagstones, cutting the flagstones, and finally leveling the flagstones.
I've already done a video explaining exactly how to build this step by step, so be sure to watch that. However, I think this will give you a really good idea of what the process actually looks like.
This project took me about twenty hours to complete from start to finish. I completed it over a period of seven days working anywhere from 1.5hrs to 4hrs each day. There's a lot of digging and it is back breaking work so I wouldn't recommend doing this for 8 hours a day unless you are used to this type of work already (for example if you install floors for a living.)
I think I could have finished this a bit faster, but I had to dig around a lot of roots from a nearby tree and avoid damaging a sprinkler line in the process. I also had to repair the sprinkler line.
I guess I’ll be going for the cheaper and crappier version! Great job! Impressive!
Same, I'll add time and labor saving also
Great walkway but an explanation of the steps and all the materials used would have helped those of us trying to learn.
There's a video showing all the steps that you can click on at the end of this video. Or search his channel for flagstone patio.
I see now he actually links to the video on the description of this video! 😊
Dang ... that's a lot of work! This video was great to show the steps involved to do it right. And it looks fantastic when finished. I may hire it out instead of doing it myself.
Beautiful job, I had no idea the stones were cut to fit, DUH!
Looks perfect and natural!
Yeah if your not good enought to fit them together naturally
you can, you can also rough fit them with a stone splitting chisel, or you can natural fit by playing around with placement for hours and picking specific stones from your rock yard
fabulous job, guess i won’t be doing this myself!
Alternate title: The Flash building a stone pathway
Facts
🤣
Don't forget all in under FIVE WHOLE MINUTES
Bhahahahaha
Bro, this was absolutely AWESOME. And I totally applaud the way you recorded it and are giving everybody access to a longer version. F#@* the haters. GREAT JOB!
First TH-cam video I've ever slowed down.
Helped alot.
Thanks!
Very well done. I don’t think the entire process took only 5 minutes!
5 times 12 minutes 🤣🤣🤣
Loved when you installed landscape fabric😮
Nice job. I especially liked the attention to detail in leveling each stone.
Nothing about this, including the video length, was 5 minutes 😂
😂😂😂
Lol
I was thinking the same thing lmaoo
And we all watched till the end right?
Yeah, but it got us all to watch it, huh?!😂
It looks beautiful! You did a lovely job!
Thank you! Cheers!
Great video, everything is common sense and the only thing I never knew was about how to make them fit or pre fit and the wet saw the pieces together. Easy money. 1st time watching a flagstone video. Now I got it.
Perfect!
How didnit go
All the people that gave it a thumbs-down because they actually thought he did all the work in 5 minutes, were the same people who got mad at the get-rich-quick in 5 minutes video.
*Perfect flagstone pathway*
Nicely done. Very labor intensive to get it to look right & be level.
Thanks. A small walkway like this isn’t too bad but an entire patio is a lot to handle.
Looks great! Obviously a great amount of work, but it looks absolutely beautiful.
Thanks!
I feel like the Home Improvement theme should be playing. UuUuUh (that noise Tim Allen makes)
I don’t move that fast in 5 minutes! 😂
Just took two Excedrin!
I tried moving that fast and caught on frre.
😄😄😄😄👍
your wife says u can be done in 5 minutes
Thank you for this video! It was the perfect length, very informative, and well-produced.
The level on those stones bro...... I AM IMPRESSED.
Maybe you should have done it in 15 minutes so we could have a little time to see some details of the progress.
I have another video which is a detailed step by step for building a flagstone patio. I recommend watching that for more details.
Try slowing down the playback speed.Button at lower right corner.
Beautiful! My first thought was 5 minutes with a dump truck maybe, but that's a cool cutting tool. I want one.
Thanks 👍
Clever way to get people to view your video 😀😀 The video was 5 minutes long but, it obviously took you much longer to do the job !!! Love the finished product though😀
Thanks! 😃
Yes. Thank you for speeding it up. I was able to get the general idea!
completely invaluable without describing the steps.
That looks like 7 minutes at least! I'm offended now.
great job man, it looks like the hardest part was levelling :)
It was!
I’m a stone mason ..nice job young fella
Great work! That man for sure tired after that. Wow.
Absolutely beautiful.🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Great job❗Looks beautiful❗I would have tackled this 20yrs ago 🤣, now, it's, "Call the Handyman." 🤷♀️
NOTE: In his comments he said the job took 20 hours. He did it in increments of about 1-4 hours/day. It would have taken me 20 days 🤣🤦♀️🤣.
Hey...better than watching cement dry🤣🤣✌️btw great job
I finely got to liking the song because u don’t say ‘nothing’
I am in the process of doing this but since I have never done it before this was a little too fast for me. We all are not great at this stuff and the prep work is very important and I think I missed out on what was going on. The end result is great but not east to follow to get there
Wow! Good work!
confirmed: i did all that in 5 minutes. Barely broke a sweat
God damn liar
That's a lot of work...
Okay he got me.. I’m trying to find a fast way to create a pathway and it not be gravel. The title about 5 mins made me think the May be an answer .. nope. But it looks great!
Thanks!
Ok so the title is in accurate, but how about what an incredible job he did completely alone, and it came out awesome
wow, what a great job!
Thank you!
He did such a beautiful job! My question is: Was he going for the grass eventually growing between the stones? Some people like that look. I guess he could've put down a weed cloth and filled the gaps between the stones with a fine pea gravel for another type of look, too. Or, he could've used paver set sand and maybe kept the weeds & grass out of spaces between the stones. Would love to see an update later as the grass fills in to see what it looks like.
Seen way better pathways than that… personally wasn’t impressed at all./
@@macysondheim I bet you have never built one yourself.
Step off Hater.
@@macysondheim I just finished a pathway with about forty five natural stones. Different thicknesses, shapes, protrusions, pivot points, etc. Took three days even with lots of my tricks and cheats...looks great, good meshing, balance, and decent water shedding. I still need to see how it weathers for a few seasons, and appreciate that OP did this time lapse in addition to the full videos. It's one thing to "have seen" better work, it's quite another to work up to the task and *do* it.
The weed cloth won't work if your putting topsoil in between anyway your better off spraying it and letting grass fill in the gaps
Great job man , well done
Even faster if you watch in 2x speed 😂
This was interesting, thanks
Glad you enjoyed!
Title should be how to speed through a video in 5 minutes
Brother use a hand grinder with a chipping hammer you get way nice cuts all the time
Look awesome! But shouldn’t you use weed barrier fabric?
Beautiful job!
Thank you!
Inspiring video! ❤️🙌🏻
Looks awesome
Good job man
Are the stones 1" or 1 1/2" thick? do you think they could be cut with agrinder and tile diamond blades? I do not have that saw.
Really awesome job! I am attempting to do a small area with Arizona Flagstone with unfortunately all different sizes . I've never seen sand and DG used together. Before I start the job please help me with your rationale on that. I'm wondering if the sand is for leveling and the DG was used for stabilizing the flags together.... Thanks again for a great vid.
Looks good 👍
Thanks!
Genius!
Very nice work
If people are stupid enough to think that doing this takes five minutes (and that this isn't a timelapse) they shouldn't be making a pathway at all.
that was rad! thanks
excellent job
Nice work.
I can do this in 5 min also, writing a ck to a handy man...😷
Is there a detailed version of this with supplies and tool info?
Looks great man, looks like a hell of a lot of work though! Was this at your house? Or for a client?
Yes, this was at my house. I wrote about how long it took me in the description.
I'm helping a guy do 1200 square feet. I came here looking for tricks , there are none , it's time consuming back breaking work.
Beautiful
Thank you! Cheers!
so it is a five minute video of how to build a flagstone pathway in three days... well at least that is how long that would take me... lol. Awesome job though
nice man
Awesome job 👍! Wish you lived in Florida pay you to do both sides of my property 😁!...great video.
it would only take him...10 minutes.
Superb video!
Can’t see, but there’s a longer version?
This guy’s hourly rate must be bananas
We have a path like this but it's grown moss for years in between, if I scrape that out what do I fill it with??
Where did you buy those stepping stones?
May you please put what material you were using? That would be helpful. Thank you
It’s flagstone. I have a video on how to install a. Flagstone patio that is the same process and I explain it in more depth:
great video
Wow this is great! Thanks! Could you top the crevices with pea gravel as well once the path is inlaid completely?
No, you may not.
You'd have to be in good physical shape to do this.
how long did this take you? looks great
Amazing
How long in time did this take for you to do total?
What is the white stuff under each stone
Bravo!
This is his first project. Next time it won’t take that long.
Nice!
Am I the only one thinking, "damn If that water line burst where all that work is, that's gonna suck."
Uhm shoot should of run it down the edge instead
Definitely , the tools make a job like this look really easy. Great job! Looks awesome!
Thanks 👍
Nice video. What kind of stones are you using? Could you tell me the name of the flagstones?
No gravel layer for enhanced drainage ? Do you think the stone slabs will still be level after one or two winters or rainstorms ? I don‘t. ❄️⛈💦
do you not need a gravel/aggregate base? wont it shift
There is a gravel base
How much would this cost? A ballpark range.
In your " how to build a flagstone patio or walkway" video you said to use 1 1/2 inch- 2 inch flagstone - this flagstone looks like 1/2 -3/4 inch at best. How is it holding up?
What was the material swept into joints of stones
Decomposed granite (DG) with the screenings.
will this be ok if you have freezing and thawing ?
In 20 years of laying stone I’ve never needed a concrete saw 🤣
I read your comment yesterday and thought of it today. I was cleaning up the excess soil from around my pathway stones, after wetting, compressing the stones, and waiting for the water to drain from yesterday. I was using a *cat hair brush* to scrape the stones and shape the clumpy soil. Gee, what would you say about a *cat brush* to clean stones?!!! Just because you've been doing something for two decades does not preclude learning new methods, improvising, and being creative.
The gutter at the front of the garage? What was done with that?
Great inspiration video for a small project. I didn't see any edging used to hold pavers in place and keep them from migrating. Is that normal for sandstone?
You don’t need edging as long as you place the larger stones around the perimeter.
@@StayHandy You are correct! Once I starting lifting the larger sandstones yesterday, I found out how heavy they are. I watched your longer video too. Thanks again for filming and posting.
Źle zatytułowany filmik. Powinno być "przygotowanie ścieżki kamiennej w 5 minutowym skrócie" ☺️
Quick question: Do you think it would be best to reroute your irrigation line instead of underneath the walkway or is it ok like that?
If you can avoid routing your water lines under hardscapes, do it. But most of the time you can’t.
Subtitles for each step would have been helpful
This would have probably been a very helpful video if I didn't feel like I was having a seizure....
wow you move so fast.